When you spread out keyframes, sometimes the body part acceleration/deceleration isn't correct as a result because DS doesn't interpolate the way you'd want it to.

When you look at the Stimuli animations, you see a keyframe on every frame, but I think that's because they were prepared in another package and imported - probably either as BVH or FBX - and the keyframes were generated automatically. So start by keyframing just the extreme ends of the motion, and then refine. Daz will smoothly interpolate over intermediate frames.

Where possible, don't put a keyframe in on every Daz frame.

That being said, a couple of ways to help get around 'jerky': But that's because animation is really a secondary 'thing' for Daz Studio. Basically, the Daz Studio animation tool isn't very good - far below what other packages have. LOLĬlick to expand.I'm FAR from an expert either. Plus, some of them have been used to death.

To me, the Stimuli animations are nice, but some of them seem a bit 'violent' to me. This lets you render out the animation, play it outside of DS, and decide what needs to be tweaked without taking hours for each iteration.īut khumak is correct - to make things look even vaguely realistic, you need to have 'other parts' of the figures move slightly as well. So each frame renders in seconds, rather than minutes. The OpenGL renderer is VERY fast - it's what's used to do the main window in DS. Here's one trick I've found - if you're trying to see how the animation looks in real time, you can render it using the 'OpenGL Basic' renderer instead of iRay or 3Delight.

It's not helped by the fact that DS is not well tuned to doing animation - you can't play them in real time to see how they look. Click to expand.This is basically true regardless of the animation - the eye is very sensitive to how things move in the real world, and it's difficult to create good animations that look realistic.

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